Anna Alexandrova

Anna Alexandrova is a lecturer in philosophy of science. Before coming to Cambridge she taught at the University of Missouri St Louis (2007–2011) and got her PhD in Philosophy and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego in 2006.

Research interests: Philosophy of social science, especially economics and psychology; nature of modelling, laws, explanation, measurement, scientific progress; rational choice theory, well-being and other social indicators.

For more information on her research and links to her papers visit her external website:

'Progress in Economics: Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions' (with Robert Northcott), The Oxford Handbook for Philosophy of Economics, eds. H. Kincaid and D. Ross, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, 306–336